Validation of the Aeolus Level-2B wind product over Northern Canada and the Arctic
In August 2018, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Aeolus satellite, whose Atmospheric LAser Doppler INstrument (ALADIN) is the first space-borne Doppler wind lidar to regularly measure vertical profiles of horizontal line-of-sight (HLOS) winds with global sampling. This mission is intende...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:8b8179e3d40247e1b78917bc79cba784 2023-05-15T14:51:13+02:00 Validation of the Aeolus Level-2B wind product over Northern Canada and the Arctic C.-C. Chou P. J. Kushner S. Laroche Z. Mariani P. Rodriguez S. Melo C. G. Fletcher 2022-08-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-4443-2022 https://doaj.org/article/8b8179e3d40247e1b78917bc79cba784 EN eng Copernicus Publications https://amt.copernicus.org/articles/15/4443/2022/amt-15-4443-2022.pdf https://doaj.org/toc/1867-1381 https://doaj.org/toc/1867-8548 doi:10.5194/amt-15-4443-2022 1867-1381 1867-8548 https://doaj.org/article/8b8179e3d40247e1b78917bc79cba784 Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Vol 15, Pp 4443-4461 (2022) Environmental engineering TA170-171 Earthwork. Foundations TA715-787 article 2022 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-4443-2022 2022-12-31T00:01:03Z In August 2018, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Aeolus satellite, whose Atmospheric LAser Doppler INstrument (ALADIN) is the first space-borne Doppler wind lidar to regularly measure vertical profiles of horizontal line-of-sight (HLOS) winds with global sampling. This mission is intended to assess improvement to numerical weather prediction provided by wind observations in regions poorly constrained by atmospheric mass, such as the tropics, but also, potentially, in polar regions such as the Arctic where direct wind observations are especially sparse. There remain gaps in the evaluation of the Aeolus products over the Arctic region, which is the focus of this contribution. Here, an assessment of the Aeolus Level-2B (L2B) wind product is carried out, progressing from specific locations in the Canadian North to the pan-Arctic. In particular, Aeolus data are compared to a limited sample of coincident ground-based Ka-band radar measurements at Iqaluit, Nunavut, to a larger set of coincident radiosonde measurements over the Canadian North, to Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)'s short-range forecast, and to the reanalysis product, ERA5, from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). Periods covered include the early phase of the first laser flight model (flight model A – FM-A; September to October 2018), the early phase of the second laser flight model (flight model B – FM-B; August to September 2019), and the middle phase of FM-B (December 2019 to January 2020). The adjusted r -squared between Aeolus and other local datasets is around 0.9 except for lower values for the comparison to the Ka-band radar, reflecting limited sampling opportunities with the radar data. This consistency is degraded by about 10 % for the Rayleigh winds in the summer due to solar background noise and other possible errors. Over the pan-Arctic, consistency, with correlation greater than 0.8, is found in the Mie channel from the planetary boundary layer to the lower stratosphere (near surface to 16 ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change Iqaluit Nunavut Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Nunavut Canada Aeolus ENVELOPE(161.267,161.267,-77.483,-77.483) Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 15 15 4443 4461 |
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In August 2018, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Aeolus satellite, whose Atmospheric LAser Doppler INstrument (ALADIN) is the first space-borne Doppler wind lidar to regularly measure vertical profiles of horizontal line-of-sight (HLOS) winds with global sampling. This mission is intended to assess improvement to numerical weather prediction provided by wind observations in regions poorly constrained by atmospheric mass, such as the tropics, but also, potentially, in polar regions such as the Arctic where direct wind observations are especially sparse. There remain gaps in the evaluation of the Aeolus products over the Arctic region, which is the focus of this contribution. Here, an assessment of the Aeolus Level-2B (L2B) wind product is carried out, progressing from specific locations in the Canadian North to the pan-Arctic. In particular, Aeolus data are compared to a limited sample of coincident ground-based Ka-band radar measurements at Iqaluit, Nunavut, to a larger set of coincident radiosonde measurements over the Canadian North, to Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)'s short-range forecast, and to the reanalysis product, ERA5, from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). Periods covered include the early phase of the first laser flight model (flight model A – FM-A; September to October 2018), the early phase of the second laser flight model (flight model B – FM-B; August to September 2019), and the middle phase of FM-B (December 2019 to January 2020). The adjusted r -squared between Aeolus and other local datasets is around 0.9 except for lower values for the comparison to the Ka-band radar, reflecting limited sampling opportunities with the radar data. This consistency is degraded by about 10 % for the Rayleigh winds in the summer due to solar background noise and other possible errors. Over the pan-Arctic, consistency, with correlation greater than 0.8, is found in the Mie channel from the planetary boundary layer to the lower stratosphere (near surface to 16 ... |
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Validation of the Aeolus Level-2B wind product over Northern Canada and the Arctic |
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Validation of the Aeolus Level-2B wind product over Northern Canada and the Arctic |
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Validation of the Aeolus Level-2B wind product over Northern Canada and the Arctic |
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Validation of the Aeolus Level-2B wind product over Northern Canada and the Arctic |
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Validation of the Aeolus Level-2B wind product over Northern Canada and the Arctic |
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